Trump Administration Probes Omar Over Explosive Allegations of Immigration Fraud

The Trump administration is once again scrutinizing long-standing allegations surrounding Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, after one of President Donald Trump’s top border advisers confirmed that federal authorities are actively reviewing claims that she may have committed immigration fraud by entering into a marital union with a biological relative.

Tom Homan, a senior border policy adviser to the current President, revealed this week that the Department of Homeland Security is examining records connected to Omar’s decades-old entry into the United States. For years, President Trump and multiple investigators have pointed to evidence suggesting Omar’s 2009 marriage to Ahmed Elmi may have been arranged to secure U.S. immigration benefits — allegations she has repeatedly denied, despite discrepancies that have never been fully resolved.

No official documentation or DNA confirmation has verified the family-relation claim. Still, the congresswoman’s shifting explanations and conflicting public records have prompted renewed scrutiny.

During a Monday interview with Newsmax, Homan confirmed that DHS is taking a serious look at whether Omar violated federal immigration statutes and whether her legal status could be implicated. According to her congressional biography, Omar arrived in the United States as a refugee in the 1990s following civil unrest in Somalia.

“We’re pulling the records, we’re pulling the files,” Homan said Monday. “We’re looking at it … I’m running that down this week.”

Homan added that DHS has launched a deeper investigation into widespread visa fraud involving Somali nationals in Minnesota — a problem the department believes may affect as many as half of all visas issued in the state.

“President Trump has instructed us to go down, and we’re going to deep dive all of this, and we’re going to hold people accountable,” he said, signaling that the administration intends to pursue the matter aggressively.

The renewed focus comes as President Donald Trump directly addressed the allegations in a new interview with Politico on Tuesday. Responding to Omar’s criticism of recent ICE enforcement operations targeting illegal Somali nationals in Minneapolis — actions connected to a massive $1 billion welfare-fraud scheme, portions of which investigators say were routed to the terror group al-Shabaab — the President did not mince words.

“I don’t want to see a woman that, you know, marries her brother to get in and then becomes a congressman, does nothing but complain,” Trump said in the interview with Politico’s Dasha Burns. He referenced Omar’s alleged marriage to Elmi, whom multiple reports and witness accounts identify as her biological brother.

The President continued, blasting Omar’s persistent attacks on U.S. immigration enforcement: “All she does is complain, complain, complain, and yet her country is a mess. Let her go back, fix up her own country. So no, Somalia—and I was right about it.”

He also criticized Minnesota’s Democratic governor for failing to confront the state’s growing immigration and fraud crisis: “They have an incompetent governor there, too.”

Omar has dismissed the allegations for years, calling them “baseless and absurd” while claiming they stem from anti-Muslim bias. Yet a 2019 Minneapolis Star-Tribune investigation documented inconsistencies in her marital and immigration records that she has never reconciled.

According to public filings and detailed reporting from the Daily Mail, Omar entered a civil marriage with Elmi in 2009 while still religiously married to her first husband, Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi. Though she claimed to have separated from Elmi in 2011, she did not file for a legal divorce until 2017 — during which time she and Hirsi conceived their third child. Omar later divorced Hirsi again in 2019 following reports of her affair with political strategist Tim Mynett, whom she subsequently married.

More testimony further deepened the controversy. In February 2020, the Daily Mail published an interview with Abdihakim Osman, a respected Somali community figure in Minneapolis, who said Omar openly acknowledged to friends that Elmi was her brother and that she “needed to get papers for him to stay in the United States.”

Osman recounted, “No one knew there had been a wedding until the media turned up the certificate years later.”

He described Elmi as “very feminine in the way he dressed,” and said the Somali community was stunned by the marriage. “When Ilhan married Elmi, no one even knew about it,” Osman said. “She kept it quiet because an imam would have refused to marry them if he knew they were related.”

The investigation now underway could determine whether the allegations amount to federal immigration violations — and whether one of Congress’s most controversial lawmakers may finally face legal accountability.